The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Three Thousand Five Hundred Words, Including a Considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, Etc., that are Often Mispronounced |
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abundant authority accost accrue adduce adjective ailment al-lies analogy Anglicized antiquated aspirated authority for pronouncing authority for saying best usage blä careful speakers cize còn consonant dẹ derivatives digraph diphthong Ease of utterance easier of utterance editions of Webster's emphatic English orthoëpists euphonious French geant German German language give heard hissing incorrect Johnston Kenrick language last syllable latter pronunciation letter long sound marked this word marking is Webster's munt Nares never silent noun noun and verb nounced obscure orthoë orthoëpists say orthography pedantic penult penultimate Perry prē preceded Preference is given prō pronouncing this word regular sound rhyme Scott second marking second pronunciation second syllable Sheridan short sound Smart says soft sonorous sound of y sylla ther tion triphthong trōth unaccented verb vowel vowel-sounds vulgar Webster Webster's dictionary weight of authority Worcester Worcester's word is pronounced words of similar written
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Page 81 - But he that goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow...
Page 1 - The Orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Three Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a Considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. By ALFRED ATRES. 18mo, cloth, extra, $1.00. " One of the neatest and most accurate pocket mannals on pronunciation is ' The OrthoCpist,
Page 116 - But it was so far from having generally obtained, that Lord Chesterfield strictly enjoins his son to avoid this pronunciation as affected. In a few years, however, it became so general that none but the lowest vulgar ever pronounced it in the English manner ; but upon the publication of this nobleman's Letters, which was about twenty years after he wrote them, his authority...
Page 191 - tis true, as you say, that I've injured a letter, I'll change my note soon, and I hope, for the better. May the just rights of letters as well as of men, Hereafter be fixed by the tongue and the pen ; Most devoutly I wish that they both have their due, And that I may be never mistaken for u.
Page 3 - The manner in which one speaks his mother-tongue is looked upon as showing more clearly than any other one thing what his culture is, and what his associations have been.
Page 191 - Esq. both complaining of terrible grievances imposed upon them by the great actor, who frequently banished them from their proper stations; as in the word virtue, which they said, he converted into vurtue; and, in the word, ungrateful, he displaced the U, and made it, ingrateful, to &e great prejudice of the said letters.
Page 191 - I've injured a letter, I'll change my note soon, and, I hope, for the better : May the right use of letters, as well as of men, Hereafter be fixed by the tongue and the pen ; Most devoutly I wish they may both have their due, And that /may be never mistaken for U !
Page 167 - Mr. Smith says that Mr. Walker pronounces the / in this word, but every workman pronounces it as rhyming with fodder ; to which it may be answered, that workmen ought to take their pronunciation from scholars, and not scholars from workmen.
Page 188 - To entertain them fair with open front And breast (what could we more ?) propounded terms Of composition, straight they...
Page 148 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish...